We’re thrilled to share that Amr Kamal has received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 René Wellek Prize, awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association, for the book EMPORIALISM.
Congratulations to Dr. Kamal!
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Fantastic panel on impersonality in literature and the arts yesterday, at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association.
A huge thanks to everyone involved!
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#ACLA2025 explore the aftermath of the 1975 fiscal crisis & how it reshaped literature, art, & labor in NYC's most iconic neighborhood. DIY ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE uncovers how writers met austerity with art—& how their legacy still resonates today. #ReadUP tinyurl.com/yc7pj85m
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#ACLA2025 explore how Romantic-era feminist writers like Wollstonecraft, Barbauld, & Shelley challenged linear time to imagine new political futures.
Lacan, Derrida, & fractured futures converge in FRACTURE FEMINISM, by David Sigler, rethinking time, gender, and history
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HOW CLOSE READING MADE US explores how the practice of close reading—often seen as an American literary method—traveled to #Brazil and #Israel, shaping global modernisms and transforming how we read, interpret, and even become ourselves.
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How do literature and film resist historical erasure?
REMNANTS OF REFUSAL traces feminist affective responses—melancholy, ambivalence, exhaustion—across French and Chinese texts responding to national traumas: the German Occupation and Tiananmen Square.
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#ACLA2025 explore how African literature redefines trauma through animism—linking self, ancestors, and ecosystems. Forthcoming in 8/25, ANIMIST POETICS is a bold revision of psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory through Indigenous ecologies. #LookItUP tinyurl.com/yc6tbb69
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Six book covers rotating clockwise: On Close Reading, Throw Yourself Away, The Barthes Fantastic, Slips of the Mind, Reading Hegel, Amphion.
#ACLA2025 may be ending, but our virtual exhibit is still open! Browse our virtual exhibit and get 30% off and free domestic shipping using code EX58016: bit.ly/UCPEXACLA.
How should we THINK about the Holocaust?
In DISCIPLINING THE HOLOCAUST, Karyn Ball explores the ethics of scholarly engagement with Holocaust history—interrogating how trauma, testimony, and intellectual authority are shaped by disciplinary boundaries.
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📚 We're excited to host a virtual #ACLA2025 Book Exhibit! Explore our latest #literarystudies titles and save 25% with code ACLA2025-FI—plus FREE shipping!
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Virtual #ACLA2025 folks, I’ll be presenting tomorrow in Stream B! Come hear me talk about ghosts in Native Hawaiian literature (with a teeny reading of the White Lotus season 1 ending for some really spooky shit). I haven’t done ACLA in a while and I forgot how fun the multi-panel setup is!
Text: Forthcoming Titles Fall 2025. Image: book covers of Wild Fictions, Reasons and Feelings, Beyond Individualism, Atlas's Bones.
At #ACLA2025? Discover our titles that are forthcoming in Fall 2025:
- Wild Fictions by Amitav Ghosh
- Reasons and Feelings by Sarah Mesle
- Atlas’s Bones by D. Vance Smith
- Beyond Individualism by Lois Parkinson Zamora
What if #Antigone wasn’t just a tragedy, but a call to resist colonial violence?
ANTIGONE IN THE AMERICAS takes us beyond the Western canon to reimagine Antigone through the lens of decolonial theory, black & women of color feminisms, & queer & trans critique. #ACLA2025 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/5n79vyyc
Logo for Thinking Literature series at the top, surrounded by five book covers: Reading Hegel, Slips of the Mind, Amphion, Throw Yourself Away, and The Barthes Fantastic.
Check out the new titles in our Thinking Literature series!
- Julia Jarcho: Throw Yourself Away
- John Lurz: The Barthes Fantastic
- Leah Middlebrook: Amphion
- Robert Lucas Scott: Reading Hegel
- Jennifer Soong: Slips of the Mind
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#ACLA2025 explore new and recent titles in comparative literature, critical theory, world literatures, and more in our virtual booth!
Save 30% with code SACLA25 through July 1, 2025
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Hoy y mañana: muy contento de organizar este seminario sobre lectura y archivo en ACLA. Exploraremos la lectura como lugar de lucha, esperanza y política. Invitadísimos. #ACLA2025
Excited to be organizing this seminar on reading and the archive at the ACLA Conference. This year the conference is online: May 30th, 31st. We’ll explore reading as a site of struggle, hope, and policy. Join us! #ACLA2025 #LatinAmericanStudies
Six book covers rotating clockwise: On Close Reading, Throw Yourself Away, The Barthes Fantastic, Slips of the Mind, Reading Hegel, Amphion.
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Enjoy early access to our list of discounted books & journals for the American Comparative Literature Association online conference through the virtual exhibit link below. We have 95 books from 10 different publishers! #ACLA2025 #comparativeliterature
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